The Mandalorian season three isn’t even out yet but director Jon Favreau is already looking towards season four of the Star Wars series.
After the tepid reaction to the Star Wars sequel trilogy, The Mandalorian became an early hit for Disney+. It had heart and action. It had spectacular special effects. It had lots of Baby Yoda. It spawned its own sequels, Ahsoka and The Book of Boba Fett.
It’s no surprise, then, that more of the series would be incoming, but it should still be exciting for fans to hear Favreau discussing plans for season four this early. In an interview with Cinema Blend at the Star Wars Celebration convention, he revealed that the fourth season of The Mandalorian is currently being written.
“With television, we’re very lucky that we don’t have to rush things through into an hour-and-a-half, two hours,” he said. “We get to tell stories slowly. So now, as Dave (Filoni)’s doing Ahsoka, it’s very much informing the writing that I’m doing for season four. It becomes – how should I put it – more precise.”
Favreau also discussed how writing the series has changed over the seasons. “When I was writing the first season of Mandalorian, I could do anything, set it anywhere,” the director recalled. “Dave would read it, we’d go back and forth, I would adjust. And there it was.
Now we have to figure out why there are certain Mandalorians who wear helmets, certain ones who don’t wear helmets, what’s happening on Mandalore, what’s Bo-Katan doing at the time? How does she feel about that? Where is the Darksaber? So it really creates very fertile ground for imagination, for storytelling.”
Season three of The Mandalorian, meanwhile, is currently in post-production, and is set for release in February 2023.
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